Replication data for:

Schleehauf, Ronald/Fröhle, Marius/Reinbold, Judith/Jäckle, Sebastian (2025): 
From Swipes to Votes: The Role of the VAA Voteswiper in Polarizing Voter Choices for the 2025 General Election in Germany
in: Policy and Internet

The replication data includes

1) This ReadMe File
2) "From Swipes to Votes.do": a Stata Do-File replicating the statistical figures and tables from the article, and the Supplementary Material
3) a folder "data" including 
	a) Codebook and printed version of the survey among Voteswiper users at the 2025 Federal Elections in Germany
	b) a datasets with individual data from the survey: "wahlswiper_nachbefragung_25_ohneemail.dta"
	c) a dataset "Voteswiper 2025 party answers.xlsx"

4) a folder "results" with three subfolders 
	a) "figures" and
	b) "tables" in which all the results from the article and the Supplementary Information will be saved.  
	c) "dump" in which intermediate results and results not presented in the article are saved (can be deleted after the estimation).

Before running "From Swipes to Votes.do":
- install missing packages (see lines 9-15)  
- set the path to your "replication"-folder (see line 17) 
 


  